Innovation and its enemies : why people resist new technologies / Calestous Juma.
By: Juma, Calestous [author.].
Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]Edition: First edition.Description: xii, 416 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780190467036 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Technological innovations -- History | Technology and civilization | Technology -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | HC79.T4 J8178 2016 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000008666 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Gales of creative destruction -- Brewing trouble: coffee -- Stop the presses: printing the Qur'an -- Smear campaigns: margarine -- Gaining traction: farm mechanization -- Charged arguments: electricity -- Cool reception: refrigerated foods -- Facing the music: recorded sound -- Taking root: genetically modified crops -- Swimming against the current: transgenic salmon -- Oiling the wheels of novelty.